Shortcut To Increase/decrease Text Size In Ms Word - Windows Tip

#1 AnkushPuri

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Posted 10 November 2009 - 09:11 AM

How about increasing/decreasing the font size in MS Word using your keyboard? I don't really know whether this will increase your productivity by leaps, but anyway this is a pretty useful tip to know.

Before you use the shortcut, you got to select the text in the document for which the font size needs to be changed.
The shortcut key is Ctrl + [ (the left square bracket which is near the P key in a QWERTY keyboard) to reduce the font size and Ctrl + ] to increase the size.
Every time you hit this key combination, the font size changes by one point.

I have only tested this with MS Word 2003 and it works fine. This should also work in MS Powerpoint and MS Outlook.

you can use CTRL+SHIFT+ > or < too

#2 smax013

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Posted 11 November 2009 - 02:33 PM

I moved your topic to the Office & Business Software forum as it is a more appropriate location for your topic.

#3 AnkushPuri

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 12:32 AM

smax013, on 11 November 2009 - 02:33 PM, said:

I moved your topic to the Office & Business Software forum as it is a more appropriate location for your topic.

yeah. . .you are rite. . . . thankYou ! ! ! !

#4 MLStrand56

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Posted 21 November 2011 - 03:38 PM

AnkushPuri, on 10 November 2009 - 09:11 AM, said:

Every time you hit this key combination, the font size changes by one point.

Do you mean that the font increases to the next higher/lower DEFAULT font size (pitch), OR do you mean that the font increases/decreases One Tenth of it's current size (pitch)?

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